To understand the history of the formation of the Hui people, the earliest should be traced back to which dynasty

The word "Hui" as a national title is now well documented to have appeared in the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty, and should be traced back to the Yuan Dynasty at the earliest.

The word "Hui" for "Hui" follows the "Hui" in the old name of Islam in China, "Hui Huism". Domestic historians are mostly of the opinion that "Hui Hui" is an anagram or phonetic transcription of "Huihe" and "Hui Hu".

Before the Yuan Dynasty, the words "Huihe", "Huifeng" and "Huihui" had no clear boundaries in the Chinese literature, and were almost synonymous, and were usually used in the Chinese historical books of different authors. These three words have no clear boundaries in Chinese literature, almost synonymous, in different authors of the Chinese historical books are usually mixed alternately, referring to the encompassing the western region, the north of the desert hu people up to the Central Asia and Persia around the crowd, with the word back to the people from the migratory belt to the west appears to be a little more. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, the Hui Hui distributed in the Middle East (Suet, Jews, Persians and other Hu merchants have more components) and part of the Huihe, Huihu is called Hui Hui people; and distributed in the north of the desert part of the Huihu, Huihe or Hui Hui, is united with some of the local ethnic groups migrated to the west after the formation of the fear of the Wu'er, and the development of some of them into Tajik, Uzbek and other Western peoples. In the meantime, the Hu, migratory birds, Huihe and such titles, in the historical records basically disappeared. The word "Hui Hui" is clear, in the official edicts and Chinese records involving the ethnic groups are generally "Mongolia, afraid of the Woodchucks, Hui Hui, also Ri Kewin, Heshi, Qidan, Jurchen, Han Chinese" this kind of words.

The Yuan dynasty "Hui Hui" in the official or Chinese historical records in addition to the already settled in the Chinese territory of the Hui Hui people, usually also refers to more than the "Ai Wuer" west of the crowd, that is, "onion ridge to the west, the Black Sea The term "Huihui" also refers to people further west than the "Aiguer", i.e. "west of the Onion Mountains and east of the Black Sea"-Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, as well as parts of Kazakhstan, Iraq, Turkey and the Caucasus. During the Song, Yuan, and even Ming and Qing dynasties, in addition to the Ming Dynasty's Sala and other ethnic groups, all the merchants, craftsmen, soldiers, scholars and so on from this region into China are almost naturally categorized into the Hui Hui people.

Ming Dynasty, "Hui Hui" and "color people" in Chinese records and used. The actual Hui Hui as a self-proclaimed years much earlier than this, just because the relevant historical relics, records were destroyed and altered.